Include who won and a link to the game result, if any, so that those messages can be removed from the chat

Include a prominent option to stand up from the game

Include either a "Play Again" button or a message saying "Press Start to play again"

Instead of having it be a transparent box overlaying the game board (which makes it hard to see the pieces sometimes), make it a separate area which comes earlier than the board in the page layout. This way, it's still prominent, but at the same time does not block viewing of the board after the game is over.

2. [DONE] Adding a finished game viewer for yavalath would fix it so clicking on the game result link would show you the board at the end of the game (and let you step through to see the order of moves)

3. I’d like to re-do the way the Game Over indicator is done. Perhaps it would show up above the game instead in the “out of the screen” direction. It wouldn’t obscure the board, and I could include in the game over area a clearer indication of the winner of the game

4. [DONE] I can add an extra chat message for yavalath when the game is over announcing which player won.

2. [DONE] Adding a finished game viewer for yavalath would fix it so clicking on the game result link would show you the board at the end of the game (and let you step through to see the order of moves)

3. I’d like to re-do the way the Game Over indicator is done. Perhaps it would show up above the game instead in the “out of the screen” direction. It wouldn’t obscure the board, and I could include in the game over area a…

My reasoning behind having all players need to press start was to prevent this situation:

Player A creates a new game. Player B, who dislikes player A, waits until he knows Player A is not available (asleep, away, etc) and then joins and starts the game. Player A's clock runs out and Player B claims the win.

I played around with calling alert() a bit more. Unfortunately it appears that if I used that to implement this feature, the user will become logged out until they get around to clicking on the alert popup dialog box. I will need to investigate and experiment a bit more.